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Excerpt from Laws of New Hampshire, Vol. 2: Including Public and Private Acts and Resolves and the Royal Commissions and Instructions With Historical and Descriptive Notes, and an Appendix; Province Period, 1702-1745 The administration of Joseph Dudley was for many reasons acceptable and advantageous to the people of New Hampshire. It was crowded with important events. The ever present Allen claim was held by the Governor in some degree of subordina tion to the requirements of Queen Anne's war and other vital interests of England viewed as an empire, and New Hampshire as a subordinate or constituent part of that empire. Kimball, Public Life of Joseph Dudley, passim; editorial notes on the administration and On the contemporary statutes, this volume, pp. 1 - 4, 38 - 44. It was expected that Col. Elizeus Burges would come to America as the successor of Governor Joseph Dudley, and exe cute a commission that had been granted to him as Governor of the colony of Massachusetts, and another intended to make him the executive of the province of New Hampshire. He was, however, induced to decline these offices for a consideration provided through their representatives in England by parties interested In the government in Massachusetts. A commission was issued to George Vaughan, contemporaneously with that of Col. Burges, to be lieutenant-governor of the province, and the successor of Mr. Usher. The commission of the Lieutenant Governor required him to pursue the directions of the com mission and instructions of Governor Burges in the execution of his office. If, however, the commission of Col. Burges had been vacated by his declination, it may be a question whether that of Governor Dudley was not the continuing constitution of the province until the arrival of Governor Shute, and the publication of his commission. Editor's notes on the commis sion of Governor Burges, and the administration of Lieutenant Governor Vaughan, this volume, 166, 167; Kimball, Public Life of Joseph Dudley, 174. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases—across time, place, and circumstance—to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters’ rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as “property,” from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters’ rights with state and colonial laws, Fede shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. His comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners’ families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws consistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence, Fede concludes, flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era.